Button-hole piece for boots or shoes



(No Model.)

J. BEECH.

BUTTON HOLE PIECE FOR BOOTS 0R SHOES.

No. 368,619. Patented Aug. 23,1887.

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JOHN REEOE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

BUTTON-HOLE PlECE. FOR BOOTS OR SHOES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 368,619, dated August 23, 1887.

Application filed June 28, 1887.

' ton, county of Suffolk, and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Button-Hole Pieces for Boots, Shoes, 850., of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representing like parts.

In the manufacture of boots and shoes and other articles wherein the material to be stitched for the formation of a button-hole is held in a clamp it is customary when changing the position of the material in the clamp to-cut the upper thread and then drawthe material out of the clamp and reclamp it in position for the next button-hole, the under thread, as well as the usual staying-cord surrounding the button-hole, being thus extended from one to the next button hole, and thereafter it has been customary to whip down the said threads to the under or inner side of the material by a hand-needle carrying a thread. Recently this has been done by means of a sewing-machine having either one or two needles and an under-thread carrier; but in all such plans known to me wherein this work is done on a sewing machine the stitches by which the thrumbs or the loose ends and threads at the inner side of the material are confined to the material are passed through the material,

and appear at the outside thereof, which is detrimental, as some think, to the appearance of the article.

In accordance with my present invention, the thrumbs orthreads at the end of and between the smaller ends of the button-holes are confined,to the inner side of the material by means of a single-thread blind-stitch made by a needle, thepoint of which enters and emerges from the same side of the material when forming a loop, the stitch being a chain-stitch, the loop part of the chain being wrapped about the threads employed in the button-hole and left extending between the small ends thereof.

Figure 1 shows part of the button-piece of a boot or shoe, and Fig. 2 the needle by which the b1ind-stitch is made.

Let A represent on a larger scale the inner side of a piece of leather or other material form- Serial No. 242,732. (No model.)

ing part of a button-piece for a boot or shoe, the same having, as herein shown, three button-holes, l 2 3, all overstitched in usual mannor by an upper and under thread.

At the inner ends of the button holes the threads are left open orloose, and fewer blindstitches are shown in the drawings than would in practice be employed.

The projecting free ends of needle-thread left at the inner end of each button hole are marked a a, the under thread, I), and the cord or stay-thread c, the latter, as usual, being extended about the button-hole under its overstitching With all the threads brought together in line between the inner ends of adjacent button-holes, as in the drawings, the material is placed in a sewing-machine having a suitable support-as represented, for instance, in my application, Serial No. 214,157, filed September 21, 1886, .to which reference may be had and a needle, d, preferably a circular or curved needle, having a thread, d, is caused to enter the inner side of the material along one side of the said collected threads or b 0, pass somewhat into the material, and then out at the same side thereof, but at the opposite side of the collected threads a I) 0, making a loop, 02 which is caught and held while the needle is retracted, and the material is fed over the support far enough for a new stitch,

when the needle d is again thrust forward to enter the material, as before, and also the loop of its own thread made and-left in the material at a preceding operation of the needle d. In this way the needlethread d is moved about the thrumbs or threads or b c in a spiral form, causing the said threads (1 b c and the thread (1 to present the appearance of a heavy twisted cord, leaving a very superior, attractive, and strong finish at the inner side of the button-piece.

I claim-- 1. A button-piece having a series of button holes, the inner ends of which are connected by means of the threads employed in the manufacture of the button-hole, combined with a thread, as d, which enters and emerges from the same side of the material and not passing through the same and envelops the threads of 10s the button-hole left extended between the in inner side of the button-piece, substantially as [O ner ends thereof, substantially as described. described.

2. A bntt0n-piece having a series of button- In testimony whereof I have signed my name holes, the inner ends of which are connected to this specification in the presence of two sub- 5 by means of the threads employed in the rnanuscribing witnesses.

facture of the button-hole, the said threads be- JOHN REEOE. tween the ends of adjacent button-holes being W'itnesses confined t0 the material by sewing-machine BERNIOE J. NOYES,

stitches, the loops of which show only at the 1 F. L. EMERY. 

